Warren Bennis

Though the size of Warren Bennis's obituary in the New York Times was epic -- all six columns across, filling most of the space above the fold on the back page of the A section -- its text made no mention of something about him I always thought inextricable from who he was and the success he achieved.

ust as Peter Drucker was "the father of management," Warren Bennis will be remembered as "the father of leadership." It was Warren who first said leadership is not a set of genetic characteristics, but rather the result of the lifelong process of self-discovery.